Part Two: Creating a Personal Act of Civil Disobedience
You are a political activist like Thoreau, Gandhi and King and recount your own experience after breaking what you consider an unjust law or rule. Each person in your group will select a person from the time period you worked on in part one and create a separate web page about that person. Use the time period you studied in part one and reflect upon this experience in journal form using the following questions as a guide:
· What policy or law am I protesting and why?
· How am I choosing to passively resist? What are my methods?
· Am I alone in this act or part of an organization?
· What could be (or are) the consequences of my action, both positive and negative?
· How do others, including my family and peers, view the act I am committing?
· What are my motivations for committing the act?
· What was achieved by the act? Did I receive publicity, recognition, or notoriety?
· What was the experience like as a whole?
· Was breaking the law or rule worth what was accomplished?
You are a political activist like Thoreau, Gandhi and King and recount your own experience after breaking what you consider an unjust law or rule. Each person in your group will select a person from the time period you worked on in part one and create a separate web page about that person. Use the time period you studied in part one and reflect upon this experience in journal form using the following questions as a guide:
- · What policy or law am I protesting and why?
- · How am I choosing to passively resist? What are my methods?
- · Am I alone in this act or part of an organization?
- · What could be (or are) the consequences of my action, both positive and negative?
- · How do others, including my family and peers, view the act I am committing?
- · What are my motivations for committing the act?
- · What was achieved by the act? Did I receive publicity, recognition, or notoriety?
- · What was the experience like as a whole?
- · Was breaking the law or rule worth what was accomplished?
(Credit:https://ce-wiki.wikispaces.com/Civil+Disobedience)